Great to meet Roy in Corby this morning for head gasket and cambelt service on his MGF 143 VVC.
The car had been fitted previously with a Payen blue BW750 Elastomer gasket, plus new head bolts and lower oil rail, but unfortunately it failed, coolant had made its way into the oil. So we replaced this with our MLS gasket.
On changing the short cambelt we noticed that the roll pin had been replaced with a ground down part of a bolt. As the hole had obviously been drilled to a wider dimension we couldn’t replace with a normal roll pin.
Although registered in the UK in 1998, it is actually a 1996 exported car and then imported back. In charcoal grey fitted with aircon. Quite a rarity.
A really good morning, although very cold, but we had a constant supply of cuppas, thanks Roy!
We were supposed to have our second call in Corby too, at Kevin’s place of work, but unfortunately his car had decided to play up this morning. So we picked up the keys and headed to his house in Northampton.
Given the symptoms we code read the car, which brought up seven error codes. One was for the cam sensor, which wouldn’t clear, several for misfire related issues, when the car was running there was a smell of rotten eggs from the exhaust. We replaced the cam sensor and the coil packs. All error codes cleared and none returned, car was running nicely. Great looking TF 135.
